Luxembourg Financial Group announced this week the launch of the first two newcits on their open-architecture Liquid Alpha
NYSE Euronext’s (NYX) global derivatives average daily volume (ADV) was 9.0 million contracts traded per day in January 2011, a decrease of 2.7% versus the prior year, but an increase of 35.6% sequentially. The fall in global derivatives ADV versus
Portfolio managers and executives of US hedge funds believe the industry can survive the economic turmoil, but the overriding concern – by a three-to-one margin – is that the government
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed and simultaneously settled charges against James M Peister and his company, Northstar International Group, (Northstar), that they defrauded commodity pool participants by concealing trading losses and using participants’ funds to make
NewAlpha Asset Management, the Paris-based global hedge fund incubation specialist, has made its17th strategic investment with Heieck Siebrecht Capital Advisors (HSCA) AG, a Zürich-based hedge fund management firm focused on German equities. As of 1st November 2011, HSCA had assets
Gartmore has appointed Luke Newman as portfolio manager to its UK team. He joins on 29 June and will work with Ben Wallace on the recently launched Gartmore UK Absolute Return and AlphaGen Octanis Funds. Newman’s nine years of
Credit Suisse has appointed Dale Westhoff as Global Head of Structured Products Research, based in New York. Westhoff brings significant experience and will focus on delivering the Bank’s exceptional research in mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and other structured products to
AllianceBernstein has appointed Michael H Conn as managing director – strategy, operations and development, supporting the firm's fund of funds business. He will be based in Los Angeles and report to Marc Gamsin, head of AllianceBernstein's alternative investment management group.
Counterparty risk exposure has been something of a boon for Deutsche Bank’s prime finance division in Asia.
Superfund, the Vienna-based managed futures firm established by Christian Baha in 1995, is planning to increase alliances with Japan’s major securities broke
